Why are kids so mean?

kids are mean. It's just the way it is. They like to pick on the kid that is a little different or new. Been there, been that. Unfortunately it doesn't really get better as adults, we just play at being "nice" more convincingly.

Yes, it does continue. But now it is just an easy weeding process as to who not to be friends with and who are not worth my time with their caddiness. : ) Hope your brother finds the few that are worth his time.

Kids aren't mean. They simply don't think much of it. I have to make a conscious effort to dial it back with new company cus I don't think much of telling you exactly what I think, comes from going from being in school, to being in the Marines to being self employed. If I think you're a fucking moron I'm likely going to say it, if I'm feeling polite I'll thinly veil it.

How old is your brother again? The only reason I ask is that for younger kids, it may not so much be being mean as it is ignorance, and perhaps if someone who influences them (parents) knew what they were doing they could guide them the right way. As kids get a little older, into JR high and high school, then it does become a meanness issue, because when you're that age there's more of an awareness and a 'you should know better' sense of things. Unfortunately, it seems as time has passed there's more focus on getting your own self ahead, no matter who you have to step on to get there instead of supporting respect, kindness and understanding.

uni - mmm it's one thing if I"m being "made fun of" as I have been before but when it's my brotehr it's completely different because of his disabilities

torrented - the thing about my brother is that his global development delay has his mental development slowed down, so his mind phrame is behind the other kids his age, and that mens it's even harder for him to really know who his friends are and what not, but i think he is getting better

sean - I think that there is a fine line between being blunt, and just being mean.

Hege - my brother is in grade nine, i just hope that things get better for my brother because I hate when he comes home upset becaues of something somebody said to him, as he's been growing older he has just started to become more resentful and it kind of hurts to see it because he really only ever tried to be friends with people, and now he's about to give up completely on it.

When I was younger, I used to beat up kids who were mean to my brother. I once did a good job on a kid with a stick. They made fun of him out of ignorance, he has duchennes muscular dystrophy. When I got older, if a kid was ignorant, I bitched out the kids parents. I was really protective of my brother, all the family always has been. Even now I'm still protective, if I think someone isn't treating them right I'll send them away in tears.

sarcstic - it took everything in my will power, and being as the kid was an idiot and wrong, I have told off many people for treating my brother badly, I'm the ONLY ONE who has any right to actually say anything to him, it's in the sibling code! I've had to tell off "friends" of mine who said rude comments and man they were pretty damn shocked, and I totally understand the protective ness it's the same for my family and my brother, (though my mom is more of a babying type)